The Glowing Eye Effect You Can't Fake in Post (So Stop Trying)

The Glowing Eye Effect You Can't Fake in Post (So Stop Trying)

There’s a specific flavor of frustration I know well: spending twenty minutes in Photoshop pushing the iris brightness slider on a portrait, adding fake catchlights, maybe throwing a curves adjustment on a layer mask - and still ending up with eyes that look like they were lit by a refrigerator. The result is always a little off. A little dead. You can tell it was done in post, and so can your client.